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July 10, 2023

Zev Yaroslavsky’s Los Angeles: A Political Memoir-Excerpts

Zev’s new book, ‘Zev's Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir’, excerpted here with his permission, …” revisits the period in which Los Angeles”, as former LA Times’ Editor notes in his eloquent & recent book review, “became what we know today: big and complex, multiracial, exciting, divided and far deeper than what meets the eye.”

June 23, 2023

Patsaouras: Political Origins of LA's Transit Safety Challenges

Nick Patsaouras, who outlines the historic and political origins of LA Metro’s policing contracts in the 1990s and subsequent degradation of security on the system.

June 23, 2023

Coordinating Green Building Across the LA Region: MyGBCE 2023 Civic Power Panel Excerpt

At a recent US Green Building Council-LA event, Executive Director Ben Stapleton led a conversation with Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer and Climate Emergency Mobilization Director for the City of LA; Rita Kampalath, Acting LA County Chief Sustainability Office; Sean Crumby, Director of Project Delivery and Sustainability for the City of Irvine; and Lucius Martin, the Deputy Mayor of Economic Development at the City of Long Beach on how the region is collaborating—or not—on delivering new green building projects and retrofitting existing buildings.

June 23, 2023

VX2023: Affordable Housing—The Vienna Model Panel Video

In this panel from VerdeXchange 2023, moderated by former Mayor of Culver City Alex Fisch, GGLO Architects' Gerhard Mayer, Global Policy Leadership Academy's Helmi Hisserich, LA Family Housing's Stephanie Klasky-Gamer, and the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness's Jason Ward discuss if the Vienna affordable housing model could help build affordable housing on a large scale in California?